Turns out a lack of labour protections makes your economy more productive in the short term but less productive in the long term.

Odd, that.

Eating bitterness (吃苦） is a phrase that really brings me back to my time growing up in east Asia. However it seems older generations believing their offspring are too weak / spoilt to handle what they themselves have gone through appears to be a pretty universal thing.

In before lemmygrad users come in and defend their utopia.